King of German Mercenaries

Seeing Da Vinci nodding, Marin was overjoyed, and quickly took out the contract he had prepared for a long time, ready to sign it on the spot.

Da Vinci was shocked when he got the contract. Because, in terms of the contract period, Marin wrote 30 years...

Thirty years, Da Vinci can't guarantee whether he can live to thirty years. In fact, this 30-year period is basically equivalent to the rest of Da Vinci's life, and he has to work for Marin.

Therefore, Da Vinci hesitated...even Da Vinci doubted whether Marin himself could last for 30 years. Because, Marin is a military attache, and will fight for the emperor in the future. If Marlin accidentally burps on the battlefield, how will Da Vinci settle it?

In this regard, Marin expressed to a large extent that he was willing to add a corresponding clause to the contract, stipulating that if Marin died, Da Vinci could leave freely. Of course, you can also stay to perform the contract, and the treatment can only be increased, not decreased...

Huadou said this, and Da Vinci no longer hesitated. He signed his name on the contract, and Marin immediately signed his name...

So far, Da Vinci has officially become a mental longbow under Marin's command, serving for 30 years...

Instead of letting Da Vinci work right away, Marin let Da Vinci relax for a few days. Then, the chubby top girl who looked like Mr. Da Vinci was left to have fun with Da Vinci...

A few days later, Da Vinci was almost at ease, so he came to Marin's castle and began to talk about work...

"Oh, Ada, have you rested enough?"

"Enough is enough..." Da Vinci seemed to be blushing. In the past few days, he finally lived like a normal man. Under the harmony of yin and yang, it is also refreshing.

"Is that girl still satisfied?"

"Satisfaction is satisfaction, but you know, she's just a prostitute, and I can't marry her." This is true. To marry a prostitute requires a very thick-skinned person who is not afraid of ridicule. .

The West is no better than the East, and an Oriental can marry several. Of course, the Orientals did bring home a prostitute, but only as a concubine, and no one would like his wife to be a prostitute.

For example, in the famous "Du Shiniang Angry in a Treasure Box", Li Jia began to be carried away by love and wanted to marry Du Shiniang as his wife. But in the end, thinking about it, it was extremely difficult. Because, as a son of an official family, if he really wanted to marry Du Shiniang as his wife, according to the harsh ancient patriarchal system, Li Jia might be directly killed. The best result is to accept it as a concubine. Therefore, under the temptation of Sun Fu, Li Jiacai agreed to sell Du Shiniang. It's not that Li Jia is ruthless, but that he really can't bear that much pressure. If you want to marry a prostitute and a woman, you have to be prepared to be beaten to death by family law...

The same is true in the West. Moreover, the West is only allowed to marry one wife, and there is no such thing as a concubine. Therefore, when there is only one choice, no one wants to marry a woman who is a prostitute. Unless, this person really can't find a wife, and can't care about being shameless...

Da Vinci was a smart guy, and always has been. He quietly wrote down the Da Vinci manuscript, and also used mirrored text to facilitate confidentiality, just for fear that the Holy See would know that he was doing anatomy, and that he would engage in natural science and contradict the Holy See.

Therefore, such a smart person is unlikely to marry a prostitute or a girl when his brain is hot. What's more, Da Vinci took this fat prostitute as the shadow of Sister Henia.

"Yes, after a while, I will send someone to Italy to help you find an educated lady... By the way, what do you want? For example, do you prefer fat or thin? Tall or short?"

"It's not in a hurry, I'll tell you after I think about it, my boss, tell me, what should I do now? I think, you're going to kidnap me at such a high price, and you won't keep me in vain. Bar?"

"Of course, I invited you to come because I hope you can help me do something big!"

"I like the saying,

I am Da Vinci, and I was born to like to do big things! "

"Ada, have you heard of clockwork?"

"Clockwork? Of course I know. Now many famous craftsmen are seeking to make clocks with clockwork. I have seen it many times in Italy, and I am familiar with some clockwork craftsmen..."

"You can make clockwork yourself?"

"No, but I have worked with craftsmen who can make clockwork and bought clockwork..."

"Then do you know where there are masters who make clockwork?"

"Milan has a few, and Florence has..."

"Great, you write me a list, and I will send someone to recruit..."

"What are you doing with clockwork?"

"Two for, and one for making more precise clocks..." More precisely, Marin was for making nautical clocks.

Today's clocks have too much error, and it is difficult to calculate the longitude and determine the coordinates when they are used for large voyages. So, Marin needed a more accurate nautical clock, that is, a more accurate timepiece.

"Although I have also been involved in watches, I am not a top watchmaker, because I don't concentrate on this. However, I know a master watchmaker. His name is Miller, a famous watchmaker in Milan..."

"Famous watch master? Can I please move?"

"You can bring it to a stun..."

"Okay, that makes sense..."

"What's another use?"

"As a firing mechanism for a musket?"

"What? Use a clockwork to fire a musket? It's a bold idea, what's the specific principle?" Da Vinci was an inventor and was very interested in new inventions.

"It is to use the mainspring to accumulate energy first, and then use the trigger to loosen the tightened mainspring, so that the steel wheel driven by the mainspring rubs the flint and ignites the gunpowder..."

"What a genius idea..." Da Vinci had worked as a military contractor and knew weapons. He thought about it and found that the idea was really good, so he exclaimed in admiration.

"Hehe, unfortunately, I don't understand craftsmanship. I heard that you are good at this, so I asked you to develop this..."

"I can't do it alone, because I'm not good at making clockwork. So, I need a few craftsmen who are proficient in clockwork to help me make clockwork..."

"That's fine, I'll send someone to Italy to recruit right away. However, those craftsmen can make the clockwork for you, but don't let those hired craftsmen participate in the research and development and manufacture of the revolving musket fired by the clockwork..."

"You want to own the secret?"

"Yes, with a revolver that doesn't require an arquebus, I can equip my cavalry with this. That way, my cavalry has not only impact but also long-range attack power."

"With all due respect, it is very difficult for cavalry to aim on horses. Moreover, cavalry is unlikely to use long-barreled muskets, only short ones. Such muskets have a relatively short range..."

"You're right, while a cavalry might have an effective range of 30 yards with a short lance, that's not what matters. I could equip a hussar with this musket against plate knights. My hussar, you can At a certain distance, hit the plate knight with a musket, and the plate knight is unlikely to catch up with my light cavalry, and there is no escape..."

"However, the musket can only be fired once, so it's very troublesome to reload..."

"Of course I know, but I can let my cavalry carry five or six revolvers..."

"That's okay? However, a revolving musket that uses a clockwork is expensive to manufacture, right? You know, such a precision device is very labor-intensive and requires high-quality materials. So, a revolving musket costs a lot of money. It will probably be more expensive.”

"I know, but I don't plan to equip much of this kind of cavalry. Moreover, this kind of cavalry is specially used to deal with the opponent's plate knights. People don't need too many, they only need to be large enough... "

"What you said makes sense. Such an army is indeed the nemesis of slow-running plate knights..."

"Of course, I'm a war genius..." Marin doesn't want Bilian to put gold on his face...

In fact, this branch of the military was indeed rampant in the 16th century. His title is "Black Knight", which is an important military service in Germany. The black-shirted knight under Charles V once relied on the revolver to fire a musket, and beat the French plate knights to a great defeat.

However, this is only suitable for combating the popular plate knights of this era, and the phalanx of spear infantry without long-range firepower. When the Europeans abandoned the cumbersome plate knights, the black knights were easily bitten and hunted down by the opposing light cavalry. After the 17th century, most of the infantry used long-barreled muskets. The short guns used by the black knights can't compare with the long-barreled models of the infantry at all, and the shooting can only be death. So, black knights started in the late 16th century and gradually disappeared. However, the sister arms of the black knights, the dragoons, have become very popular and become an important mobile firepower arm...

In this way, Leonardo da Vinci took over two engineering projects in one go - a clock using a clockwork, and a revolver using a clockwork. Among them, the clockwork using the clock Ma Linyan clearly can be slowed down, but the revolving gun using the clockwork needs to be developed as soon as possible, and it must be kept secret...

Moreover, the difficulty of revolving a musket is much less than that of a clockwork clock. After all, clockwork clocks require a lot of precision. The revolver firearm only needs to be able to rub out sparks and ignite the gunpowder. Therefore, the difficulty of the two is not the same level.

The only downside is the high cost of the musket due to the use of a complex spring. But this is also the technical barrier that Marin set up for those poor ghost nobles - it's not that you can't build it, but you can't equip it, because the cost is too high...

To be honest, Marin could have made Leonardo da Vinci a flintlock. Moreover, the cost of flintlock guns can be much lower, which is convenient for large-scale installation. However, the flintlock gun is easy to imitate. If Marin's opponents were armed with flintlocks on a massive scale, Marin would dig a hole and bury himself. Therefore, Marin, who is not short of money, decided to first develop a revolving gun that only local tyrants can afford, so that those poor ghost monarchs could not afford to equip them even if they learned the technology.

You must know that each of the black knights in Marin's preparations carried several revolving guns. If there is no strong financial resources, the general lord can't afford to equip...

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